cars on the New Jersey Turnpike

Just a quick comment on something I read today.

Did you know that for every one white child who gets lead poisoning, three Hispanic children do, and six black children do?

I think the bigger problem is that ten AMERICAN children just got lead poisoning. It shouldn’t matter that they are black, white, yellow or orange. Shouldn’t it matter that they have lead poisoning?

As more time passes, I begin to believe more and more in isolationism. Pull our troops from the foreign countries and put them to work here in our country. I’m all for helping out those in need. I’m saddened that there are African children dying of starvation. But what upsets me is the people who rant and rave about the dying African child, yet fail to see the child in their own city who is dying as well. I fail to understand how we can “fix” the rest of the world, while our country is falling apart at the seams.

What do I want out of a Presidential candidate? Someone who will put the needs of the American people ahead of the needs of the rest of the world. Too long has America played the big brother attempting to help its little siblings. Either they make it on their own or they fall flat on their face. There comes a time when they have to do it on their own, and any interference from big brother is more detrimental, not only to them, but to big brother as well.

I don’t think I will get it. I don’t think any candidate has the balls to present such an idea. Create an America strong from within, not forcing outward. Create an America that rejoices in its diversity and explores the differences, rather than forcing everyone in the same pidgeon hole.

Is the bigger issue that for every white child who gets lead poisoning, three Hispanic children do, and six black children do? Or is the bigger issue that our children are dying from lead poisoning?

Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I’ve gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette I think there’s one in the raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenary she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy I’m lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come to look for America
All come to look for America

America ~ Simon & Garfunkel

Shazar

We share a similar viewpoint, but for different reasons. The US – as a nation, as a culture – needs to heal itself. Not just from terrorists and war, but from so many injustices. In V for Vendetta, there is this phenomenal line, “This country doesn’t need a building. It needs hope.” That summed it up beautifully. The US is more concerned about having its fingers in every other countries’pockets than tending to it’s own garments. We’re not “helping” the world, so much as keeping tabs on everyone else. How many natural disasters have there been since the war started? And yet all the resources to rebuild those cities, those communities, those LIVES have been transferred to pay for this “war.” As you said, its the lives that matter. And it’s going to take a very strong president to make that point. I don’t think the US is strong enough for that person yet… it requires quite a reality check of our own lives.

I agree with you. Fix your home then the neighborhood type thing. My opinions on the U.S don’t hold a lot of weight since I’m not from there, but I do think a reassessment of priorities would be beneficial to the U.S

Oh yeah….what red head? I’ve completely forgotten.